Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.